Monday, March 17, 2008
It’s about Time…Part IX
I don’t really want to discuss quantum theory, but just want to briefly mention one ‘special’ particle again, the photon, the quantum of electromagnetism, to which light belongs. (Light is a wave if you treat it as a wave, and a quantum if you treat it as a quantum. Sometimes it even acts like a...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
It’s about Time…Part VIII
Those who have followed me this far will remember the analytical distinction I made at the beginning, that between time and ‘time’, between ‘what we all know as long as we don’t think about it’, to paraphrase St. Augustine, and the mystery we refer to as soon as we do. The more I have thought about...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
It’s About Time...Part VII
What makes ideas ‘revolutionary’? The fact that they either change the world, or that they change us; or at least that they change the way we see the world… And what are the implications for our lives? There can be little doubt that the Copernican Revolution had a subtle but marked effect on...
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Monday, March 10, 2008
It’s About Time...Part VI
If you want to live longer, move into the basement. Or at least move out of your penthouse, and get down to the ground floor. Alright, I’ll confess, it won’t lengthen your life to any really noticeable degree, but it will definitely do so. Not by days, not by hours, but maybe by fractions of...
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
It’s About Time...Part V
Before I examine some of the specific phenomena that demonstrate that these theories are, in fact, ‘effective’ theories, a few more general remarks. The ‘union’ between space and ‘time’ in spacetime is at least as significant as the ‘Copernican Revolution’, which postulated a heliocentric universe....
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
It's About Time...Part IV
I know when I am beat, lol. Being faced with a huge collective yawn from my readership, I shall leave out all kinds of stuff that I find interesting, and fast-forward pretty well to the modern era, were things get simultaneously simpler and more difficult…sorry… Until fairly recently, whatever...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
It’s About Time...Part III
As I have said, time begins with the emergence of consciousness. Thus, in a sense, time emerges out of ‘time’. This emergence of time in and through consciousness occurs specifically and exclusively in human consciousness. Any other forms of consciousness, though clearly in ‘time’ and ‘geared’ into...
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
It’s About Time...Part II
In this part, I shall begin by making an important analytical distinction, important at least for my present purposes. I shall distinguish between ‘time-in-itself-whatever-it may-be’, and ‘time-as-an-object-of-human-consciousness.’ It’s a distinction that, I hope will become clearer as we go along,...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
It’s About Time...Part I
This post, that is. But also that I write about something I had meant to reflect on for quite a while, partly motivated 'at the time' by our erstwhile fellow Blogger, Enigmatic. Not to ultimately unravel the complexity, but to better understand it. It won’t be very systematic, but more like a chat,...
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Naut on Religion…XXXII (Islam)
Throughout history, religious tolerance has never been mankind’s strong suit. Yet, it is difficult to find another example of a religion which, cobbled together from a variety of sources, defines itself from the outset in explicit opposition to its roots. And although at the beginning of Muhammad’s...
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